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Uranium Energy Corp Adds Two Industry
Professionals to its Advisory Board, Appoints Ed Brezinski as VP, Corporate
Development
AUSTIN, TX - February 6, 2008 - Uranium Energy Corp is pleased to
announce the appointment of two leading industry professionals, Dr. John D.
Nelson and Anthony J. Thompson, to its Advisory Board. The Company is also
pleased to announce that Ed Brezinski is joining the Company as
Vice-President, Corporate Development. He had earlier served on the Advisory
Board.
Amir Adnani, president and CEO, said, "We welcome Dr. Nelson and
Mr. Thompson to the Advisory Board here. Dr. Nelson, one of North America's
foremost authorities in the management of uranium mine tailings, and Mr.
Thompson, legal counsel for environmental and occupational health and safety
issues for much of this industry, definitely bring the level of expertise to
distinguish our Company in developing state-of-the-art ISR and conventional
uranium projects. Mr. Brezinski is a welcome addition to the management team.
His in-depth experience in the uranium industry makes an excellent fit with
Uranium Energy Corp's growth profile."
Dr. John D. Nelson
Dr. Nelson is a professional engineer, with licenses in five states,
and a long-term professor of civil engineering at Colorado State University. As
a professor, he developed a major geotechnical engineering program for the
field of mine tailings management, primarily as it relates to uranium mining,
and is an industry expert in this specialized field.
Dr. Nelson served as the chairman of the Annual Conference on Tailings
and Mine Waste for 20 years. He is the senior author of a primary
report, Long-Term Stability of Uranium
Mill Tailings, prepared for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC) -- a source document for environmental impact statements in this
industry. He also
served as a consultant to the NRC, including the review of all uranium
tailings management plans for mill licensing applications from 1978 until
1984. Since 1985, he has served as a consulting engineer for the mining
industry and has acted as the senior technical engineer for several tailings
dam projects including Uravan, Gas Hills, Maybell, and York Canyon.
Dr. Nelson received his
BSc, MSc and PhD in Civil Engineering from the Illinois Institute of
Technology in Chicago. He is Professor Emeritus at Colorado State
University.
Anthony J.
Thompson
Mr. Thompson has been
practicing environmental and occupational health and safety law since the
mid-1970's. He is the primary outside counsel to the National Mining
Association (NMA) for uranium issues, and he has represented much of the
domestic uranium mining and milling industry either as counsel to NMA or as
counsel to individual licensees since the late 1970's. He is the prime author
of NMA's White Paper entitled "Recommendations for a Coordinated
Approach to Regulating the Uranium Recovery Industry." Mr.
Thompson received his BA in History from Princeton University and his law
degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. He is a member of the
American Nuclear Society, the American Bar Association and the Society for
Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration.
Ed Brezinski
Mr. Brezinski has 20+
years of service with utility companies and with nuclear fuel traders and
brokers. His experience has been focused on marketing, trading and
brokerage of uranium and related products, market analysis, inventory
management, and the procurement and contracting for nuclear fuel, fuel
services and other vital nuclear power plant services. While at
Northeast Utilities, he acted as lead purchaser of uranium concentrates, and
conversion, enrichment and fabrication services. He also worked in a
similar lead trader or broker capacity for UG USA, Nukem Inc, and NYNCO
trading and brokerage companies.
Mr. Brezinski most
recently served as Vice President of Nuclear Fuel Supply for NYSE-listed
Energy Solutions Inc. He has a Bachelor of Science in Radiological
Health Physics, and an MBA in Finance and International Business.
About Uranium
Energy Corp
Uranium Energy Corp
(AMEX: UEC) is a US-based junior resource company with the objective of
becoming a near-term ISR uranium producer in the United States. The
Company controls one of the largest historical uranium exploration and
development databases in the US. Through the use of these databases,
the Company has acquired advanced uranium properties throughout the
southwestern US. The operational management is comprised of pre-eminent
uranium mining and exploration professionals whose collective experience in
this industry gives the Company ongoing uranium mine-finding and mine
development expertise.
Contact North
America: Investor Relations, Uranium Energy Corp
Toll Free: (866) 748-1030
Phone: (604) 682-9775
Fax: (604) 682-3591
E-mail: info@uraniumenergy.com
Stock Exchange
Information:
American Stock Exchange Symbol: UEC
Frankfurt Stock Exchange Symbol: U6Z
Berlin Stock Exchange Symbol: U6Z
WKN: A�JDRR
ISN: US9168961038
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